Comments on: My Snap Reactions To The State Of The Union http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/ Reality-based political commentary Wed, 27 May 2026 04:53:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131298 Kick Sat, 09 Feb 2019 03:37:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131298 CRS 23 <i>But not just any old generic cans - gotta be Campbell's Soup cans! </i> As you wish: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79809? CRS
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But not just any old generic cans - gotta be Campbell's Soup cans!

As you wish:

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79809?

]]> By: C. R. Stucki http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131275 C. R. Stucki Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:14:19 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131275 But not just any old generic cans - gotta be Campbell's Soup cans! But not just any old generic cans - gotta be Campbell's Soup cans!

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131273 Kick Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:23:49 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131273 CRS 21 Why would anyone not believe that a guy who pisses into a boot with instructions on the heel makes phone calls on two tin cans and a long piece of string? :) CRS
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Why would anyone not believe that a guy who pisses into a boot with instructions on the heel makes phone calls on two tin cans and a long piece of string? :)

]]> By: C. R. Stucki http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131272 C. R. Stucki Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:01:16 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131272 Kick Internet or not, I've never seen a FOX News broadcast in my life. But why would I need to or want to? Hannety and all those guys call me on the phone (believe it or not, an old fashioned 'landline'), and ask me every morning what they should say about the Democratics on their daily broadcast! Kick

Internet or not, I've never seen a FOX News broadcast in my life. But why would I need to or want to? Hannety and all those guys call me on the phone (believe it or not, an old fashioned 'landline'), and ask me every morning what they should say about the Democratics on their daily broadcast!

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131265 Kick Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:46:37 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131265 CRS 4 <i>I talk about "democratics" with some regularity, as in "Most democratics aren't smart enough to figure out how to empty piss out of a boot if they have the instructions written on the heel", and I get my TV off an old-fashioned roof-top antenna, so I've never had the opportunitu to watch Fox News! </i> Since you're without question on the Internet, then you've obviously had ample "opportunitu to watch Fox News." Since you demonstrably "aren't smart enough to figure out how," perhaps you could have somebody come out to Podunk and have the instructions written down for you on the heel of that "old-fashioned" boot y'all are using "with some regularity" as a toilet. :) CRS
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I talk about "democratics" with some regularity, as in "Most democratics aren't smart enough to figure out how to empty piss out of a boot if they have the instructions written on the heel", and I get my TV off an old-fashioned roof-top antenna, so I've never had the opportunitu to watch Fox News!

Since you're without question on the Internet, then you've obviously had ample "opportunitu to watch Fox News." Since you demonstrably "aren't smart enough to figure out how," perhaps you could have somebody come out to Podunk and have the instructions written down for you on the heel of that "old-fashioned" boot y'all are using "with some regularity" as a toilet. :)

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131263 Kick Thu, 07 Feb 2019 06:27:47 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131263 JL 3 <i>On another tangent, the failure to use the word 'democratic' is not just some random person needlessly ragging on canadians by misspelling 'about' - it's a cultural offshoot of conservative media. </i> <b>Random person</b>!? *too funny* I must admit that although I sincerely considered it, I decided that I couldn't not say something about how much I love this. :) <i>It's one of the ways you can tell who watches fox news. </i> Yes! That and their totally nonsensical belief that they're somehow an "insider" to the "facts" and a "true patriot" while everyone else who doesn't suckle at the Fox teat or worship at the alter of the Trump cult of personality is somehow "less than" they are. One of my Fox-watching brainwashed cousins kept telling me how any moron knows that those people who oppose their president aren't "true patriots" and are "un-American"... so I sent her 200 enumerated links to video clips/tweets of those "America haters" and "traitors" by the name of Trump, Hannity, Limbaugh, etcetera, and <b>her</b> opposing their president... told her there were plenty more where that came from and to let me know if she needed more. The cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy, complete and utter lack of self-awareness, and willful ignorance requires that you sometimes must connect the dots for the Fox minions. :) JL
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On another tangent, the failure to use the word 'democratic' is not just some random person needlessly ragging on canadians by misspelling 'about' - it's a cultural offshoot of conservative media.

Random person!? *too funny* I must admit that although I sincerely considered it, I decided that I couldn't not say something about how much I love this. :)

It's one of the ways you can tell who watches fox news.

Yes! That and their totally nonsensical belief that they're somehow an "insider" to the "facts" and a "true patriot" while everyone else who doesn't suckle at the Fox teat or worship at the alter of the Trump cult of personality is somehow "less than" they are.

One of my Fox-watching brainwashed cousins kept telling me how any moron knows that those people who oppose their president aren't "true patriots" and are "un-American"... so I sent her 200 enumerated links to video clips/tweets of those "America haters" and "traitors" by the name of Trump, Hannity, Limbaugh, etcetera, and her opposing their president... told her there were plenty more where that came from and to let me know if she needed more. The cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy, complete and utter lack of self-awareness, and willful ignorance requires that you sometimes must connect the dots for the Fox minions. :)

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131261 nypoet22 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 04:52:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131261 the english language, being a mongrel cross-breed of latin, germanic, greek and god knows how many other roots, has many, many irregularities. that's just how we americas roll. the english language, being a mongrel cross-breed of latin, germanic, greek and god knows how many other roots, has many, many irregularities. that's just how we americas roll.

]]> By: C. R. Stucki http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131260 C. R. Stucki Thu, 07 Feb 2019 03:54:27 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131260 CW Re the "ic" thing, that NYer article is utter nonsnense. I have no personal feelings or opinions on 'Democrat' vs 'Democratic', nor would I see any reason to consider either one to be a 'slur', or to be denigrating. I just advocate for some reasonable consistency in the system. I'm perfectly happy for you guys to belong to the DemocratIC party, provided you are willing and happy to designate yourselves individiually as DemocratICS. Then in the name of consistency, members of the Republican party would naturally need to be referred to or to call themselves Republicans. However, if you want to belong to the DemocratIC party but designate yourselves as Democrats, then, in the name of consistency, the members of the Republican party need to be called Republics, right? Of course, the obvious problem with that is, it makes no grammatical sense. The normal definition/understanding of the noun 'Republic' does not allow for it to be defined as an individual person. CW

Re the "ic" thing, that NYer article is utter nonsnense.

I have no personal feelings or opinions on 'Democrat' vs 'Democratic', nor would I see any reason to consider either one to be a 'slur', or to be denigrating. I just advocate for some reasonable consistency in the system.

I'm perfectly happy for you guys to belong to the DemocratIC party, provided you are willing and happy to designate yourselves individiually as DemocratICS. Then in the name of consistency, members of the Republican party would naturally need to be referred to or to call themselves Republicans.

However, if you want to belong to the DemocratIC party but designate yourselves as Democrats, then, in the name of consistency, the members of the Republican party need to be called Republics, right?

Of course, the obvious problem with that is, it makes no grammatical sense. The normal definition/understanding of the noun 'Republic' does not allow for it to be defined as an individual person.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131257 nypoet22 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 03:33:38 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131257 i guess i just thought someone who went to grammar school might have learned to use grammar. i guess i just thought someone who went to grammar school might have learned to use grammar.

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131255 Chris Weigant Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:14:35 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131255 New column is now up... -CW New column is now up...

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131254 Chris Weigant Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:00:58 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131254 As for the "-ic" thing, check out that NYer article, it's really good. Goes into the whole where it came from thing. I have also long wanted to see some Democrat answer the slur back with "well, we're better than the Republic Party" just to see what would happen... But maybe that's just me... Anyway, check out the article, unless it's behind a paywall (forgot to check when I posted that link, didn't have time). -CW As for the "-ic" thing, check out that NYer article, it's really good. Goes into the whole where it came from thing. I have also long wanted to see some Democrat answer the slur back with "well, we're better than the Republic Party" just to see what would happen...

But maybe that's just me...

Anyway, check out the article, unless it's behind a paywall (forgot to check when I posted that link, didn't have time).

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131253 Chris Weigant Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:58:56 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131253 C. R. Stucki [6] - Hey! I resemble that remark! Heh. Although I do have a stamp collection, does that count? :-) -CW C. R. Stucki [6] -

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Heh. Although I do have a stamp collection, does that count?

:-)

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131252 Chris Weigant Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:57:51 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131252 ListenWhenYouHear [11] - Actually, I do have this problem, you're right. I tape the speeches, but going back over them would take so much time that I'd be posting at midnight -- and that's midnight <em>my</em> time (Pacific). So it's just not really workable. I do miss stuff, too. My wife had to point out when Pelosi made the calm down motions with her hands when Democrats started groaning, at one point. I missed Pelosi's sarcastic clap at Trump too. But hey, it's just one man's experience watching the speech. I pretty much write without looking much at it while still trying to watch the screen (this leads to very messy notes). So, hopefully, I still catch most of what's going on... But thanks for asking -- I think in all the times I've done post-speech columns this is the first time someone pointed it out! :-) -CW ListenWhenYouHear [11] -

Actually, I do have this problem, you're right. I tape the speeches, but going back over them would take so much time that I'd be posting at midnight -- and that's midnight my time (Pacific). So it's just not really workable.

I do miss stuff, too. My wife had to point out when Pelosi made the calm down motions with her hands when Democrats started groaning, at one point. I missed Pelosi's sarcastic clap at Trump too.

But hey, it's just one man's experience watching the speech. I pretty much write without looking much at it while still trying to watch the screen (this leads to very messy notes). So, hopefully, I still catch most of what's going on...

But thanks for asking -- I think in all the times I've done post-speech columns this is the first time someone pointed it out!

:-)

-CW

]]> By: ListenWhenYouHear http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131251 ListenWhenYouHear Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:05:53 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131251 Hey C.W., Just curious as to why you don’t listen to the speeches fully before going back and replaying it in order to take notes? I can only speak to my own experiences, but I realized long ago that my take on what I heard was often more critical when I tried to take notes in real time. Focusing on what I was writing, I missed out on the non-verbal clues I might have gained by watching the person as they gave the speech. Do you ever fear not hearing the symphony as a whole by focusing your attention so closely on individual notes? Hey C.W.,

Just curious as to why you don’t listen to the speeches fully before going back and replaying it in order to take notes? I can only speak to my own experiences, but I realized long ago that my take on what I heard was often more critical when I tried to take notes in real time. Focusing on what I was writing, I missed out on the non-verbal clues I might have gained by watching the person as they gave the speech. Do you ever fear not hearing the symphony as a whole by focusing your attention so closely on individual notes?

]]> By: ListenWhenYouHear http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131250 ListenWhenYouHear Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:50:34 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131250 Trump gave that address like a third grader giving a book report on a subject matter he didn’t fully understand, and had no interest in learning more about it, as well. He spoke as one who was saying the words that he knew he was required to repeat, but words that meant nothing to him, personally. My favorite moment in Trump’s speech was when he paused for applause after saying: <I> “An economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations,” Trump said. “If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesn’t work that way! We must be united at home to defeat our adversaries abroad.”</i>... But there was no applause to be heard! Not even the VP, who is usually so far up Trump’s arse that he is often mistaken for a tapeworm these days, bothered to cheer for that line! Trump gave that address like a third grader giving a book report on a subject matter he didn’t fully understand, and had no interest in learning more about it, as well. He spoke as one who was saying the words that he knew he was required to repeat, but words that meant nothing to him, personally.

My favorite moment in Trump’s speech was when he paused for applause after saying:

“An economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations,” Trump said. “If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesn’t work that way! We must be united at home to defeat our adversaries abroad.”...

But there was no applause to be heard! Not even the VP, who is usually so far up Trump’s arse that he is often mistaken for a tapeworm these days, bothered to cheer for that line!

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131249 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:56:08 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131249 Did Trump talk about either of the two existential threats facing the US and the rest of the planet. A State of the Planet address, anyone!? Did Trump talk about either of the two existential threats facing the US and the rest of the planet.

A State of the Planet address, anyone!?

]]> By: C. R. Stucki http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131248 C. R. Stucki Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:30:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131248 poet Walls can indeed be effective if they're short and well guarded, but ours would be thousands of miles long and incapable of being guarded. poet

Walls can indeed be effective if they're short and well guarded, but ours would be thousands of miles long and incapable of being guarded.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131247 nypoet22 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:22:33 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131247 @crs, Israel's border fence ended the second intifada. Walls are effective at helping to control borders if well planned and well maintained, they're just not a good investment when there are other options. @crs,
Israel's border fence ended the second intifada. Walls are effective at helping to control borders if well planned and well maintained, they're just not a good investment when there are other options.

]]> By: C. R. Stucki http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131246 C. R. Stucki Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:52:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131246 CW Anybody who made it clear through that SOTU ordeal, start to finish, is either a masochist at heart, or a political junkie with no sensible hobbies or interests. CW

Anybody who made it clear through that SOTU ordeal, start to finish, is either a masochist at heart, or a political junkie with no sensible hobbies or interests.

]]> By: C. R. Stucki http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131245 C. R. Stucki Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:48:10 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131245 poet [2] Actually, physical barriers are monumentally INeffective. People can easily go over/under/around them anywhere where they don't have full-time guards, and Trump's idiot wall wouldn't be a damn bit more effective.. Democratics SHOULD "oppose all walls"! poet [2]

Actually, physical barriers are monumentally INeffective. People can easily go over/under/around them anywhere where they don't have full-time guards, and Trump's idiot wall wouldn't be a damn bit more effective..

Democratics SHOULD "oppose all walls"!

]]> By: C. R. Stucki http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131244 C. R. Stucki Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:41:01 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131244 Poet [3] You may have a valid point there. I talk about "democratics" with some regularity, as in "Most democratics aren't smart enough to figure out how to empty piss out of a boot if they have the instructions written on the heel", and I get my TV off an old-fashioned roof-top antenna, so I've never had the opportunitu to watch Fox News! Poet [3]

You may have a valid point there. I talk about "democratics" with some regularity, as in "Most democratics aren't smart enough to figure out how to empty piss out of a boot if they have the instructions written on the heel", and I get my TV off an old-fashioned roof-top antenna, so I've never had the opportunitu to watch Fox News!

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131243 nypoet22 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:38:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131243 On another tangent, the failure to use the word 'democratic' is not just some random person needlessly ragging on canadians by misspelling 'about' - it's a cultural offshoot of conservative media. It's one of the ways you can tell who watches fox news. On another tangent, the failure to use the word 'democratic' is not just some random person needlessly ragging on canadians by misspelling 'about' - it's a cultural offshoot of conservative media. It's one of the ways you can tell who watches fox news.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131242 nypoet22 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:22:48 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131242 What struck me was the gaping holes in donald's logic. Yes, we already have physical barriers, and they are largely successful. To paraphrase Obama, Democrats don't oppose all walls. We oppose a dumb wall. A rash wall. A wall based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. What struck me was the gaping holes in donald's logic. Yes, we already have physical barriers, and they are largely successful. To paraphrase Obama, Democrats don't oppose all walls. We oppose a dumb wall. A rash wall. A wall based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/02/05/my-snap-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-union/#comment-131239 Chris Weigant Wed, 06 Feb 2019 06:28:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=16414#comment-131239 OK, gremlins fixed from yesterday. I've posted a long comment on yesterday's article apologizing for the lost comments... Mea culpa. -CW OK, gremlins fixed from yesterday.

I've posted a long comment on yesterday's article apologizing for the lost comments...

Mea culpa.

-CW

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